Family Cow

Name: Family Cow
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ISBN: 9780882660660

✍️ Van Loon, Dirk

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📚 EDITORIAL REVIEW

“Ideal for homesteaders and ambitious rural cooks ready to trade store-bought dairy for daily barn chores. If you want instant gratification without animal care responsibilities, this manual will overwhelm you; it demands genuine commitment, time, and hands-on dedication.

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Van Loon, Dirk

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🏛 Storey Publishing 📅 1976 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9780882660660

📝 Description: Family Cow

A family cow can provide an endless supply of delicious fresh milk, but also requires a large investment of time and money. In this practical guide, Dirk van Loon provides detailed information on choosing an appropriate breed for your needs, nutrition, milking, health care, and bovine behavior. With expert advice on everything you need to know keep your animal healthy, happy, and productive, you'll soon be enjoying all the benefits a family cow can bring.

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Dirk van Loon offers a straightforward, candid handbook detailing the reality of managing a small-scale dairy animal. The book excels as a highly pragmatic guide to health care, nutrition, housing, and milking techniques, cutting straight to the essential labor behind fresh dairy. However, it is explicitly not a standard cookbook or a collection of milk-based recipes. It does not suit urban cooks or casual readers without land, time, and financial capital to invest.

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⭐ eatbookfamily.com editorial review Editorial rating 4.6/5

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Ideal for homesteaders and ambitious rural cooks ready to trade store-bought dairy for daily barn chores. If you want instant gratification without animal care responsibilities, this manual will overwhelm you; it demands genuine commitment, time, and hands-on dedication.

Reader rating

4.6

Based on 1 reviews

Eatbook Family editorial team

Dirk van Loon offers a straightforward, candid handbook detailing the reality of managing a small-scale dairy animal. The book excels as a highly pragmatic guide to health care, nutrition, housing, and milking techniques, cutting straight to the essential labor behind fresh dairy. However, it is explicitly not a standard cookbook or a collection of milk-based recipes. It does not suit urban cooks or casual readers without land, time, and financial capital to invest.

❓ Frequently asked questions

It focuses strictly on raising, feeding, milking, and maintaining the health of the cow rather than culinary recipes.

Yes, it provides step-by-step foundational advice on selecting breeds and daily care, though keeping a cow remains a major lifestyle undertaking.

📖 Who should read this

📜 Historical context

Rooted in traditional self-sufficiency and homesteading culture, this guide addresses the timeless practice of keeping livestock for home nourishment. It focuses on the practical, day-to-day realities of managing dairy animals on a small scale, prioritizing animal husbandry and traditional farm-to-table resourcefulness over modern convenience.